So here I am, at Athens Airport, on a Saturday morning waiting to get back from an European Union project to Amsterdam and from there to the Hamptons (ok, sort of) of the Netherlands, Bergen and Schoorl. The thing to do is check your e-mail, just in case someone woke up earlier (let say four o'clock) and send you this terribly important message you don't want to miss before boarding. So you start up Apple Airport (what's in a name) and look for a hotspot. There's the usual Vodafone log in and next to that (remember this is Athens Airport) only a ... China Mobile log in. It's the first time I'm confronted with the mass market expansion of China Mobile and it makes me wonder, since there's no Chinese user anywhere around. My son Bob is going of this summer to Spain to learn Spanish, but maybe getting into character type might be a wiser thing.
Anyway, I don't use Vodafone and don't read Mandarin, so I'm forced to watch Michael Clayton (the movie) on DVD instead. Not bad, although I think Sydney Pollack should quit playing executive roles.
